Today I learned that you can turn off Reddit’s obnoxious app installation popup with a simple checkbox

My favorite way to browse Reddit is through the mobile website. This allows me to quickly take a look at some of my favorite subreddits to see which posts are bubbling up. Since I’m not usually logged in, it also helps me manage my screen time; you can only scroll down comment threads so far until Reddit asks you to enter your username and password. I take that as a sign that I’ve scrolled far enough and moved on.

However, I have one major complaint about the mobile site: it is constantly pushing a large banner in my face, suggesting I should give all that up and install the app instead. Here̵

7;s a photo of that banner from my phone, which you may have seen before:

Usually I just close the prompt to make it go away, but sooner or later it reappears, forcing me to close it again and again and again. The cycle never ends – or so I thought.

Thanks today Android policeLearned that I can turn that popup off forever. It’s actually really easy to disable:

• On the Reddit mobile website, tap the three-line / burgers menu at the top right of the screen
• You will be presented with a number of options. Tap “Settings” at the bottom.
• Uncheck the ‘Ask to open in app’ box. That is it!

This is not a new solution – TNW wrote about it in November 2018 – and if you delete your browsing history or go to Reddit in incognito mode, you should turn the prompt off again. But thanks to this simple tweak, my Reddit mobile browsing experience has already changed for the better. I hope it can be done for you too.